B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3078

HR 3078 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 2,091 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,143 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,360× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 2,091 years ago.

2,091 lybrightness mag 6.05B2IV

Also catalogued as HD 64365 · HIP 38370

13,143 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

1,360× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,091 years

at light speed from Earth

2.28×

as hot as the Sun

1,360×

the Sun's light output

-2.98

absolute magnitude

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HR 3078B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

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Bright stars in Puppis

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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Puppis

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.